Assistant Superintendent of Police Audley Peters speaking to the media on Tuesday night. Photo: Donavan McIntosh/Tribune staff
By RASHAD ROLLE
Tribune Senior Reporter
rrolle@tribunemedia.net
POLICE officers and Defence Force officers searched waters at the Eastern end of New Providence Tuesday night after receiving a report of a downed plane.
However, officers found no debris and were unable to confirm that a plane had crashed up to press time, according to Assistant Superintendent of Police Audley Peters.
Officers were expected to resume their search this morning.
ASP Peters said: “Sometime around 9.50pm we received reports of a plane crash in the area of Solomons Lighthouse along the Eastern Road. Immediately our marine assets were dispatched and they included a defence force and police marines. They combed the area here along the Fox Hill Creek. However, there was no debris found of any plane in the vicinity. Subsequently, our search has ended. We also would’ve made contact with the Air Traffic Control who confirmed that there were no planes in this area during the time of the reporting of the plane crash.”
He said police have information about the person who filed the report, adding that the person who made the report said they believe they saw a flare gun signal.
He could not say exactly what time authorities arrived at the scene.
“Shortly after the complaint was made a senior officer would have arrived on the scene and confirmed with the police control room that he was here,” he said. “A sea asset collected that officer and he along with the other rest of officers inclusive of the Royal Bahamas Defence Force combed the area, this general area, proceeding further west…and was not able to discover debris of any fallen craft in the vicinity.
Comments
IslandWarrior 2 years, 10 months ago
PLP in power, anything possible "touch and go" operations, this was common during the 80s, there are two famous "touch and go" operations that most of you should remember, the south beach "touch and go" drop, which ended badly for the pilot and the Stapleton Gardens "touch and go" drop where there was the report of millions of dollars falling from the night sky.
"We back", New Day! Brave run things ;)
AnObserver 2 years, 10 months ago
Space X launched at 9:05PM, the "crash" was reported at 9:15PM, and apparently looked like a flare gun being fired. How is it that nobody is connecting the dots here.
Dawes 2 years, 10 months ago
This happens every couple of space launches for some reason. I also remember one from 20 odd years ago which i think was a missile launch by the US (i think at least).
John 2 years, 9 months ago
That is the most likely explanation space junk or a meteorite. But it was great to see that the country was able to put together a response team, had it been an actual plane crash. The most disappointed part of the saga was when the police in the video shouting ‘if you ain’t police or media, please leave the scene.. now!’ First he doesn’t have that authority until the area is declared a crime scene or disaster area. Secondly the idiot in uniform should have taken advantage of the public presence and formed a search team along the coast and not be so stupidly hostile.
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